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DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/ab71a3 |
To what extent can cirrus cloud seeding counteract global warming? | |
Gasparini, Blaz1,3; McGraw, Zachary2; Storelvmo, Trude2; Lohmann, Ulrike1 | |
2020-05-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 1748-9326 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 15期号:5 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Switzerland; Norway; USA |
英文摘要 | The idea of modifying cirrus clouds to directly counteract greenhouse gas warming has gained momentum in recent years, despite disputes over its physical feasibility. Previous studies that analyzed modifications of cirrus clouds by seeding of ice nucleating particles showed large uncertainties in both cloud and surface climate responses, ranging from no effect or even a small warming to a globally averaged cooling of about 2.5 degrees C. We use two general circulation models that showed very different responses in previous studies, ECHAM6-HAM and CESM-CAM5, to determine which radiative and climatic responses to cirrus cloud seeding in a 1.5 x CO2 world are common and which are not. Seeding reduces the net cirrus radiative effect for -1.8 W m(-2) in CESM compared with only -0.8 W m(-2) in ECHAM. Accordingly, the surface temperature decrease is larger in CESM, counteracting about 70% of the global mean temperature increase due to CO2 and only 30% in ECHAM. While seeding impacts on mean precipitation were addressed in past studies, we are the first to analyze extreme precipitation responses to cirrus seeding. Seeding decreases the frequency of the most extreme precipitation globally. However, the extreme precipitation events occur more frequently in the Sahel and Central America, following the mean precipitation increase due to a northward shift of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. In addition, we use a quadratic climate damage metric to evaluate the amount of CO2-induced damage cirrus seeding can counteract. Seeding decreases the damage by about 50% in ECHAM, and by 85% in CESM over the 21 selected land regions. Climate damage due to CO2 increase is significantly reduced as a result of seeding in all of the considered land regions. |
英文关键词 | geoengineering cirrus clouds cirrus cloud seeding cirrus cloud thinning climate damage precipitation extremes climate modeling |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000529890300001 |
WOS关键词 | COMMUNITY ATMOSPHERE MODEL ; CLIMATE SIMULATIONS ; MICROPHYSICS SCHEME ; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE ; SYSTEM MODEL ; ICE NUCLEI ; ECHAM-HAM ; AEROSOL ; PARAMETERIZATION ; IMPACT |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/279319 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Zurich, Switzerland; 2.Univ Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 3.Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gasparini, Blaz,McGraw, Zachary,Storelvmo, Trude,et al. To what extent can cirrus cloud seeding counteract global warming?[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2020,15(5). |
APA | Gasparini, Blaz,McGraw, Zachary,Storelvmo, Trude,&Lohmann, Ulrike.(2020).To what extent can cirrus cloud seeding counteract global warming?.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,15(5). |
MLA | Gasparini, Blaz,et al."To what extent can cirrus cloud seeding counteract global warming?".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 15.5(2020). |
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